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This map shows the regions and dates in which Roy's paternal ancestors were
married. In the 8 generations (1698 - 1925) since
François Dupuis Jolicoeur came to Canada from
Périgord in France, the Dupuis line
lived and died in a tight little circle of communities around Trois-Rivières. This
tradition ended when Roy's father, Normand-Roy, a commercial traveller,
married into the Thiffault family at Amos, some 700km (435
miles) to the
north-west.
Roy's actual birthplace, and place of residence for the first three months
of his life, is New Liskeard, which lies 240km (150 miles) south-west of Amos in Ontario.
Tracing Roy's mother's family has proved a bit more difficult. Only a
single pioneer named Thiffault is recorded (Jacques, from Gironde in
France). He had 3 sons; one appears only to have had a girl, and the
second appears to have been childless. The third, however, has
produced a line of sons carrying the family name right up to actress Marie
Thiffault (Tifo, wife of Pierre Curzi). For all these generations,
this branch of the family lived and married around Batiscan and St-Stanislas
(a little to the north and east of the Dupuis clan). Unfortunately I
have no information about where the line to Rina branches off, and when they
moved to Abitibi.
Grateful thanks to Google Earth for the
facilities
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